Internet Ladder, a self-hosted alternative to paywall-hopping sites Rob Beschizza

web theory Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store Cory Doctorow

Science New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible" Cory Doctorow

Business MIT Sloan Management Review suspends its paywall for two days Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank Jason Schmitt

Science 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Every judicial decision has been liberated from the US court system's paywall Cory Doctorow

gadgets FTC urged to stop companies paywalling hardware you already bought Rob Beschizza

deepfakes Deepfake-assisted Keanu Reeves impersonator makes waves on YouTube Grant St. Clair

News You Can Use Arizona Mirror provides independent news and critical political analysis Jennifer Sandlin

streaming services What caused Quibi to die? Devin Nealy

Science Sci-Hub, the "pirate bay of science," undergoes expansion Annie Rauwerda

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow

dark patterns DoNotPay's latest service will auto-cancel your free trials before the billing period starts Cory Doctorow

Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow